Israeli whistleblower facing 15 years in prison

Prosecutors agreed to drop more serious charges which included spying and harming state security after Anat Kamms enters pleas

Former Israeli soldier Anat Kamm speaks to the media in Tel Aviv district court February 6, 2011. Kamm pleaded guilty on Sunday to leaking classified military documents to a newspaper which later reported allegations of a policy to assassinate Palestinian militants. Tel Aviv district court accepted a plea bargain with Kamm, 24, dropping some of the original charges including harming state security, but convicted her of possessing and distributing secret information. (Yossi Zeliger)

A
former Israeli soldier is facing up to 15 years in prison after she admitted
passing secret military documents to a newspaper.

Anat Kamm, 24, copied more than 2,000 documents from computers while working
as a clerk to an army general between 2005 and 2007.

According to Israel’s Justice Ministry, the files contained operational plans,
personnel details and lists of targets connected to work in the West Bank.

Kamm later left the army and passed the papers to a reporter at the Haaretz
daily paper, which later published some of them.

She was arrested in December 2009 after an investigation by the Shin Bet
security service and has been under house arrest ever since.

In return for her pleas to espionage, for amassing and holding classified
information, and a second of passing on classified information, prosecutors
agreed to drop more serious charges which included spying and harming state
security.